DE-Rusting tools a bad way.... courtesy of Nick Engle.

[Larry Jaques]

Lorena, honey, is that you?

-- Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman

[J. Clarke]

But what do you do when the response to this is to remove the towel dispenser and replace it with one of the hot-air thingies?

[Edward Hennessey]

LJ:

You, sir, have renovated the reference of the bard with part for heart:

Marcus Antonius: For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel. Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar lov'd him! This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart. . . .

Julius Caesar Act 3, scene 2, 181-186

Even wierder was the dating darling the bobbed one became after his, uh, um, "resextion".

Regards,

EH

[RicodJour]

So you make it annoying for everyone else using the bathroom so you can make a point to management? Yeah, just piss on the floor - it's the same thing.

R

[Lew Hodgett]

----------------------------------------- Brilliant NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since when is the person performing the janitorial services set policy on rest rooms?

Lew

[-MIKE-]

Or gee, I don't know, maybe t a l k to the management about it. No, that would be completely unreasonable.

[Robatoy]

I have absolutely NO idea why, but it took me 10 minutes to get the tears out of my eyes from laughing so hard. Some shit just hits me funny. It's a keeper.

"It's an organic rot."

rich... real rich.

[Larry Blanchard]

That is just another symptom of the bacterial paranoia that seems to be prevalent today. It's gotten so bad that doctors are worrying that children aren't getting exposed to enough germs to build up their immune systems.

I check all the soap we buy to ensure that it *isn't* anti-bacterial. I don't want to be part of breeding better germs :-).

[Robatoy]

Orrrr one could protest in the most violent, Canadian way possible: write a letter.

[Robatoy]

Sketchy? Do you go to my kid's highschool? Sketchy is NOT a word that means what you think it means, Rico.

[J. Clarke]

America, the land of the chicken. Says something about how well we live though--in most of the rest of the world "bacteria in knife block" is so far down on the list of ways to come to grief that even mentioning it would get one laughed out of the venue.

Think this guy is worried about germs in his knife block (full story at )? How about this kid (walking three days to the clinic with a bone sticking out of his arm) (same story, this installment ).

[RicodJour]

Arguing semantics with me is like arguing with the dictionary.

sketch=C2=B7y=E2=80=82 =E2=80=82/=CB=88sk=C9=9Bt=CA=83i/ =E2=80=93adjective,sketch=C2=B7i=C2=B7er, sketch=C2=B7i=C2=B7est.

1. like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials.
2. imperfect, incomplete, slight, or superficial: a sketchy meal.

or a thesaurus

thesaurus results Main Entry: sketchy Part of Speech: adjective Definition: rough, incomplete Synonyms: coarse, crude, cursory, defective, depthless, faulty, imperfect, inadequate, insufficient, introductory, outline, perfunctory, preliminary, scrappy, shallow, skimpy, slight, superficial, uncritical, unfinished, vague

At least six of those synonyms apply to the word as I used it. Maybe there is hope for the younger generation. ;)

As Mr. Monk would say about my hangup with words, "It's a blessing...and a curse."

R

[-MIKE-]

What's a letter? Is that an analog email?

[Robatoy]

Oh, its usage may be correct (legal) but it's still lame. And that is where the legalistic 'word' communities falls flat on their faces. Many need to learn the difference between what is accurate and legal, and what is appropriate. The hip and cool use words like sketchy which is why I wondered why you selected it.

[Father Haskell]

If you used molasses, they'd smell like rum.

is a strong chelation agent, meaning it has a strong affinity for certain inorganics, in this case iron. That's why black strap is one of the best sources of dietary iron.

[RicodJour]

I am neither hip nor cool. Sketch and sketchy are words that have been around for a long, long time. The fact that you have some preconceived notion of what the word means, and when it came into common usage, is at odds with the accepted definitions, its history and derivation. I am not using a word based on your offspring's high school usage in some northern colloquially-challenged clime, but using it as God, the Dutch, Italians, Latin and Greek languages originally intended it. The English word sketch came into use in the 17th century, and it basically means a rough work or roughly made.

[C17: from Dutch schets, via Italian from Latin schedius hastily made, from Greek skhedios unprepared]

The current issue rug rat uses the word sketchy in a different way - to connote risk or unseemly behavior. I think these are also valid definitions and do not diminish the word.

In any event, I have a drawer of sketchy knives that visitors, children and other un-schooled interlopers are welcome to use and abuse. Touch my good knives (or chisels) and I'll hurt you.

R

[Larry Jaques]

I suppose it's somewhat redundant, tho. Gladja liked it.

Potatoes are organic. Potatoes rot and stink horribly. Ripe, rich scents, too.

-- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. -- Demosthenes

[Steve]

Yeah? well, you missed this one:

[Robatoy]

e:

thless, faulty,

Now we have that out of the way....

Hence SketchUp. But some guys here think it is sick, rad, and sweet. Or am I being redic?

[Robatoy]

alive.,,,, that and the fact that the Urban Dictionary is not a legit source (unlike Wiki which is) LOL